Avery v. Howell

The appeal in this case is taken from an order of the court granting a new trial in an action brought by the appellees against appellants to recover $1000 and interest which they claimed as a commission for producing a purchaser or one who would make a satisfactory trade with appellants for a tract of eight hundred acres of land belonging to appellants. The verdict and judgment denied the appellees’ right of recovery.

The facts in this case bring it fairly within the rule laid down in recent decisions of this court, as follows: In Green v. Fist, 89 Kan. 536, 132 Pac. 179, it was said:

“Following…